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Salmonella: Drug-Resistant Strain of Bacteria Gains in Africa, With High Death Rates
NY Times ^
| December 1, 2009
| DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Posted on 12/01/2009 7:52:40 PM PST by neverdem
Global Update
A new drug-resistant strain of bacteria has emerged in the last decade in Africa and is causing unusual numbers of deaths there, British and African researchers said on Monday.
The strain, a variant of Salmonella typhimurium, is named ST313. Its genome was decoded by researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and researchers in Kenya and Malawi.
While most salmonella bacteria cause diarrhea and are rarely fatal, this one causes death in one of four cases among children and vulnerable adults in some African regions, the researchers said. Many of its victims have been weakened by the AIDS virus, anemia, malaria or malnutrition.
Salmonella normally circulates in animals and reaches humans via food poisoning. (Consumer Reports said Monday that two-thirds of the chickens it had tested had campylobacter or salmonella, though not of this new strain.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Testing
KEYWORDS: health; medicine; microbiology; salmonella; salmonellast313
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posted on
12/01/2009 7:52:43 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
AIDS, Ebola, Barack Obama, now this crap.... WHAT IS IT with Africa?
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posted on
12/01/2009 7:55:10 PM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; Battle Axe; null and void; ...
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posted on
12/01/2009 8:03:52 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: April Lexington
To: April Lexington
I have no idea. I really don’t. It’s like Africa, with so many resources and potential, are utterly cursed.
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posted on
12/01/2009 8:19:28 PM PST
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: Niuhuru; April Lexington
Where tyrants rule, freedom (and the good life) die....
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posted on
12/01/2009 8:21:25 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Become a Precinct Committee Person/Officer....in the GOP...or do NOT complain.)
To: goodnesswins
I remember that the CHinese go by the concept of Mandate of Heaven. Africa, so far, has failed to get one.
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posted on
12/01/2009 8:29:12 PM PST
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: neverdem
Typhoid is a symptom of poor food and water handling and personal hygiene. There has to be a carrier also since the bacterium has a tendency to colonize the gall bladder of those asymptomatic or that have survived the disease. The disease is dangerous enough alone, coupled with immunosuppression it makes it lethal. I'm more concerned with a viral outbreak from a Morbillivirus or a variant of it.
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posted on
12/02/2009 5:33:14 AM PST
by
vetvetdoug
(FUBO, a fashion statement for conservatives.)
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